Fun Day Out!

This weekend Madilyn and I decided it was time for us to have a fun day out on the town. We first headed over to the Phoenix Children Museum. I've been wanting to take Madilyn there for some time. It was so much fun she really enjoyed the grocery store and measuring the lentils. We also enjoyed the suction tubes that would spit out the foam balls in different directions.

Madilyn figuring out how to get the foam ball into the suction tube.

Grocery shopping

Put your back into it babe!!

Ready for check out.

Washing her dishes

Here she's making a pizza and putting it into the brick oven.

Nothing like scooping up Lentils

Putting the ping pong ball in the PCP pipe so it will float in the air.

Taking a rest from all the running around.

After are fun day at the museum we decided it was time to eat. We ended up at Costa Vista's eating their delicious sweet pork burritos. It was quite the struggle sharing the burrito because Madilyn refused for me to help her eat and would take the largest bits possible. (What a mess) We ended the day with a swim at the pool, which was a perfect ending to a perfect day!! :)

Easter!

Easter was very fun this year. Madilyn and I went to SJ to spend time with our family. Because it was Good Friday we got there early and it gave me (Easter Bunny) more time to collect some stuff for Madilyn's Easter basket. I found the cuttest things a pink feathered boa and a stuffed chick. What more could a girl need? :) That night we decorated eggs and got ready for the Easter bunny to come. Easter day was fun we had a pinic with all my family and Lora did an egg hunt for all the kids. By the end of the day Madilyn was a crazy woman from all the sugar she had eaten, but all in all everyone seemed to have a great time!!

Madilyn in her Easter dress!
Madilyn is very much a girl and loves anything to do with bracelets, necklaces or purses. She definitely felt pretty!

Madilyn loved dropping the eggs in the cup of dye. Can you see the concentration?

What more does a girl need than a pink feathered boa?

Hanging out after the picnic at Grandma's house.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

Christmas Season

Christmas was a lot of fun this year. We had our whole family home. Christmas Eve day is always my favorite time. It's the day we bring down all our presents to lay under the tree and then we get to eat our Christmas lunch. This includes tamales, chili, Grandma Drain's famous fruit salad, enchilladas, and cokes. Now that's what I call a meal. :) It's also the day that we have our Patterson Christmas party and get to visit with all our extended family. These fun family traditions are what Christmas is all about.

Madilyn opening her tree ornament for the year.

Uncle Adam helping Madilyn bring down the presents

Jill and Brigham at the Patterson Christmas Party!

Madilyn Christmas Eve opening up her pajamas. Little stinker can never sit still so Lora is holding her arm so I can try and get a decent picture!!

Madilyn found the chex mix Christmas morning that Aunt Jeri makes each of us. Doesn't she look cute in her pocka dotted vest Grandma got her? :)

Caught...eating ginger snap cookies. Can life get much better than that?

Donut Day!

So this year I finally made it home for donut day. It took a great deal of convincing family members what an asset I would be if they waiting for me. Every year the girls spend a whole day making donuts to take around to my mom's and grandma's friends for the holiday season. This year Lora found aprons we had made during one of our Mother Daughter dates. Mine still fits however, Lora's was a little bit small, but she was trooper and still wore it.

Look at all those donuts around the countertops!

Madiyn helping out with the frosting

Madilyn's first donut...oh the excitement!!

Playing some football with her uncles

Poor Sick Baby

On Wednesday I recieved a phone call that Madilyn had a tempature of 101.7. I left work and went to go pick her up. After spending the rest of the afternoon trying to get her tempature down it was finally time for her to go to sleep. The next morning we woke up and she still had a fever so we decided it was time to take a day off and hang out. All Madilyn wanted was for me to hold her and lay on top of me and sleep. So I decided I would make our sick day fun and made a big bed on the living room floor with lots of blankets and wrap her with her favorite little blanket, Grandma made her. I grabbed the animal crackers and her juice and we sent and watched cartoons. Well as long as I could.:) I really don't like cartoons that much so we compromised and watched some of her shows and than some of mine. It was so nice spending the whole day with Madilyn and not feeling the pressure that I should be doing something else.

Madilyn has since went to the doctor finding out that she has a double ear infection. Here's a picture of her 3 days after being on the antibiotics. Back to happy baby sleeping through the nights. :)

Halloween

This year we spent Halloween in SJ. It was so much fun being with everyone. We first started with the town Halloween parade where all the children walk around town and down main street showing off their costumes. Afterwards we ended up at the park for hotdogs and playing. Madilyn tried the swings for the first time and absolutely loved them.

Do you like the antennas??

I loved the back of this costume. Everytime she bent over her little butt would look so cute. :)

Later on that night we went tricker treating with Aunt Lora. It was great we made bank on candy. Madilyn was a huge hit with her costume and cuteness, which produce more candy. Lora and I felt like little kids again on Halloween. We had planned just to go around the block, but ended up being out for 1 1/2 hours.

When we got back from trick or treating Kyle, Candice, and Cord Whiting thought it would be fun to dress up and scare the kids that came to the door. It actually was a lot of fun watching the kids get so scared they would run screaming from our door. Oh the joys of scaring little children. Waahahaha!! We ended the night watching scary movies. A perfect way to end a wonderful holiday like Halloween. :)

Kyle as the "Mask", Candice as the "Witch", and Cord as the "Bull"